Therefore the next day, I
Clement, awaking from sleep before dawn, and learning that Peter was
astir, and was conversing with his attendants concerning the worship of
God (there were sixteen of them,917917 [With but two
exceptions, these names, or their equivalents, occur in
Recognitions, iii. 68, where importance is attached to the
number twelve. Comp. also Recognitions, ii. 1. A
comparison of these lists favors the theory of a common documentary
basis.—R.] and I have
thought good to set forth their names, as I subsequently learned them,
that you may also know who they were. The first of them was
Zacchæus, who was once a publican, and Sophonias his brother;
Joseph and his foster-brother Michaias; also Thomas and Eliezer the
twins; also Æneas and Lazarus the priests; besides also
Elisæus, and Benjamin the son of Saphrus; as also Rubilus and
Zacharias the builders; and Ananias and Haggæus the Jamminians;
and Nicetas and Aquila the friends),—accordingly I went in and
saluted him, and at his request sat down.

917 [With but two
exceptions, these names, or their equivalents, occur in
Recognitions, iii. 68, where importance is attached to the
number twelve. Comp. also Recognitions, ii. 1. A
comparison of these lists favors the theory of a common documentary
basis.—R.]